Senior Staff Field Engineer · Kong · Netherlands

Hi, I'm
Kuldeep Bhati.

I help enterprises run APIs and AI agents in production.

I work with the platform teams inside banks, insurers and retailers, taking Kong Gateway, Konnect and AI Gateway to production. Twelve years on API platforms, and now the AI agents that use them.

Most of what I write here started as a problem a customer and I had to solve, and some of it ended up as an upstream fix to Kong.

Portrait of Kuldeep Bhati
Platforms
  • Kong Gateway
  • Konnect
  • AI Gateway
  • Apigee
  • MuleSoft
  • 3scale
  • Mashery
Focus now
  • AI Gateway 2.x
  • MCP gateways
  • Governance as code
  • Konnect migrations

Latest writing

All posts
  1. 01 Part 1: Hands-on Kong AI Gateway, your first governed LLM endpoint with KonnectPart 1 of a hands-on series. Put an LLM behind Kong AI Gateway, lock it with an API key, and call it from your own code. 9 min
  2. 02 Kong AI Gateway governance as code: lint checks before go-liveMCP tool access, logged prompts, literal secrets: governance gaps visible in the YAML. A kongctl lint ruleset for Kong AI Gateway catches them before apply. 10 min
  3. 03 From plugin to entities: local Ollama behind Kong AI Gateway 2.xThe same local Ollama model from the last post, now behind Kong AI Gateway 2.x on Konnect: a provider, a model and an API key instead of plugin config. 8 min